After him the Teacher named _Kassapa_ appeared in the world. Of his disciples too there was one assembly, at which twenty thousand monks were present. At that time the Bodisat, as the _Brahman youth Jotipāla_, accomplished in the three Vedas, was well known on earth and in heaven as the friend of the potter Ghaṭīkāra. Going with him to the Teacher and hearing the Law, he took the vows; and zealously learning the three Piṭakas, he glorified, by faithfulness in duty and in works of supererogation, the religion of the Buddhas. And to him too the Buddha prophesied. The birthplace of the Blessed One was called Benāres, Brahma-datta the brahman was his father, Dhanavatī of the brahman caste his mother, Tissa and Bhāradvāja his chief disciples, Sabbamitta his servitor, Anuḷā and Uruveḷā his chief female disciples, and the Nigrodha-tree his Bo-tree. His body was twenty cubits high, and his age was twenty thousand years. 246. After Koṇāgamana came the Perfect Buddha, best of men, Kassapa by name, that Conqueror, king of Righteousness, and giver of Light. Again, in the kalpa in which Dīpaŋkara the Buddha appeared, three other Buddhas appeared also. On their part no prophecy was made to the Bodisat, they are therefore not mentioned here; but in the commentary, in order to mention all the Buddhas from this kalpa, it is said, 247. Taṇhaŋkara and Medhaŋkara, and Saranaŋkara, And the perfect Buddha Dīpaŋkara, and Kondañña best of men, 248. And Maŋgala, and Sumana, and Revata, and Sobhita the sage, Anomadassin, Paduma, Nārada, Padumuttara, 249. And Sumedha, and Sujāta, Piyadassin the famous one, Atthadassin, Dhammadassin, Siddhattha guide of the world, 250. Tissa, and Phussa the perfect Buddha, Vipassin, Sikhin, Vessabhū, Kakusandha, Koṇāgamana, and Kassapa too the Guide,-- 251. These were the perfect Buddhas, the sinless ones, the well-controlled; Appearing like suns, dispelling the thick darkness; They, and their disciples too, blazed up like flames of fire and went out. Thus our Bodisat has come down to us through four _asaŋkheyyas_ plus one hundred thousand _kalpas_, making resolve in the presence of the twenty-four Buddhas, beginning with Dīpaŋkara. Now after Kassapa there is no other Buddha beside the present supreme Buddha. So the Bodisat received a prophecy from each of the twenty-four Buddhas, beginning at Dīpaŋkara. And furthermore in accordance with the saying, “The resolve (to become a Buddha) only succeeds by the combination of eight qualifications: being a man, and of the male sex, and capable of attaining arahatship, association with the Teachers, renunciation of the world, perfection in virtue, acts of self-sacrifice, and earnest determination,” he combined in himself these eight qualifications. And exerting himself according to the resolve he had made at the feet of Dīpaŋkara, in the words,